Colgate University
OP-13: Cleaning and Janitorial Purchasing

One year time period (fiscal year 2016).

The following information came from Colgate's Custodial Supervisor, Michelle Butzgy. The Green Seal cleaning chemicals that Colgate uses includes: 1. Sealed Air - Stride cleaner (floors) 2. Sealed Air - Crew Bathroom Cleaner & Scale Remover (bathrooms) 3. Sealed Air - Glance Glass Cleaner (glass) 4. Spartan - Clean By Peroxy (floors) We have the RTD (ready-to-dispense) system for the three Sealed Air cleaners - basically, the bottles are of the concentrated cleaner, there is a connector you use to hook these up to a water source. There is a dial on the container that mixes the cleaner at different ratios depending on what you are using it for: bucket filling vs. spray bottle etc...here is a short video of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfPhl4p20Ik The Stride floor cleaner is for flooring - it is usually put into mop buckets and/or floor machines (some but not all) The Bathroom cleaner is usually either directly applied to the surfaces of the RTD system (for shower walls etc...) or into mop buckets and/or spray bottles The Glance glass cleaner is only used in spray bottles The last one is for flooring and is also a concentrated chemical that is diluted for use. It doesn't have the same RTD system but does have a hand pump that goes on the bottle and measures out a certain amount so you can make sure it is diluted properly. We primarily use this one to clean the new LVT flooring that has been installed on campus recently - it is used in a mop bucket. Lately, Colgate has been trying out some new mop buckets - they are much smaller than the larger standard yellow ones. This works better for some of the staff (we use them in Bryan Complex, Cutten Complex, Dana Arts & a few other locations). These small buckets result in using less cleaner and water. The mop heads on these are like the others that Colgate uses - they are washed and reused them many times.